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<h1>What's New in Version 1.5</h1>

<p>The following outlines the highlights of second major release of Joomla.</p>

<h3>Important Notes</h3>
<p>
	<span style="color:red"><strong>NOTE: JOOMLA 1.5 IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION SITES!</strong></span>
</p>
<p>
	There are several important changes in Joomla 1.5 that you should be aware of.  These include:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>Mambots have been renamed to <strong>Plugins</strong>.</li>
	<li>Components, languages, modules, plugins and templates are now collectively known are <strong>Extensions</strong>.</p>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Bug Fixes</h3>
<p>Several crucial fixes have been applied to this version:</p>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>Check the CHANGELOG.php file for more information.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Security Fixes</h3>

<p>Several important vulnerabilities have been patched in this version:</p>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Templates&nbsp;</h3>
<p>
	The first thing you will notice about Joomla 1.5 are the fresh new Installation, Frontend and Backend Templates.
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Joomla! Site (Front End)</h3>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Joomla! Administrator (Back End)</h3>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Menu and Menu Types Manager</h3>
<ul>
	<li>A new database table has been added to store the menu types, rather than parsing the module parameters and hence increasing performance.</li>
	<li>Modules with the same menu type can now be added more than once allowing template designers greater flexibility.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Modules Manager</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Added a filter to display modules assigned to templates templates (excludes modules assigned to all templates).</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Contacts Component</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Two new fields are added for mobile phone number(s) and a web page.</li>
	<li>Several database fields have been widened to at least 100 characters to allow more flexibility.</li>
	<li>Contact position, address and phone numbers now allow for multi-line input.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Banners Module</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Multiple banners can now be shown and style via <code>bannergroup</code> and <code>banneritem</code> css classes.</li>
	<li>Ordering of the banners can be randomised.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Language Support</h3>
<p>&nbsp;A number of major changes have been made to facilitate the localisation of Joomla.</p>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Miscellaneous Bits</h3>
<ul>
	<li></li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Database</h3>
<p>Several changes have been made in the area of table support and schema.  These include:</p>
<ul>
	<li>Support for the mylsqi drivers is now configurable.</li>
	<li>The mambots table has been renamed to plugins.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Library Upgrades</h3>
<p>The following developer libraries have been upgraded:</p>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Useability and Accessibility</h3>
<p>Joomla continues to strive to be compliant with web standards for useability and accessibility.&nbsp; The following steps have been taken to achieve this goal:</p>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Developer Extras</h3>
<p>This is the release that Developers' have been waiting for.
	A massive effort has been made to refactor and reorganise the core of Joomla into a true extensible framework.
	The new features in the framework are too many to give justice here, but include:</p>

<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>
	We have made every effort to make this version backwardly compatible with Joomla 1.0 but there are a few changes that may affect a small selection of existing addons.
</p>
<p>
	Please note that addons written for Mambo 4.5.3 and above are probably not compatible with Joomla 1.5.
</p>
<p>
	If you are a developer of Joomla extensions then your attention should be drawn to the following points:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>todo</li>
</ul>
<p>More information is available at the <a href="http://dev.joomla.org" target="_blank">Joomla Developer Portal</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

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